ix, 278 pages : 22 cm

"Crossing and Dwelling depicts religion in place and in movement, dwelling and crossing. Tweed considers how religion situates devotees in time and space, positioning them in the body, the home, the homeland, and the cosmos. He explores how the religious employ tropes, artifacts, rituals, and institutions to mark boundaries and to prescribe and proscribe different kinds of movements across those boundaries; and how religions enable and constrain terrestrial, corporeal, and cosmic crossings."--Jacket

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-252) and index

1. Itineraries : locating theory and theorists -- 2. Boundaries : constitutive terms, orienting tropes and exegetical fussiness -- 3. Confluences : toward a theory of religion -- 4. Dwelling : the kinetics of homemaking -- 5. Crossing : the kinetics of itinerancy -- Conclusion : an itinerary

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